Most people look at flash drives as simple little electronics products. In reality Flash drives are a commodity much like wheat, gold, and gasoline. Like those things USB flash drives are not exempt from the volatile world of supply and demand. As the global stock of flash drives dwindles so the cost of those flash drives rises. However, it is not exactly true to call a "USB Flash Drive" a commodity. The flash drive itself isn't the commodity, but what they are made of is. So what exactly is inside a flash drive?

With the development and success of USB flash drives came a whole new wave of malware infections. Ghost USB was created to prevent the spread of malware on USB storage devices. To detect malware on your computer, it emulates a flash drive on Windows and observes the emulated device.

USB Memory Direct is always on the lookout for talented, rising entrepreneurs. During our search, we recently discovered a very cool Kickstarter project titled "Jumpshot", which is an automated program designed to fight PC troubles through a user-friendly interface.

The LSI Corporation, a leading designer of semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in data centers, mobile networks and client computing, today announced several public demonstrations of its award-winning SandForce SF-2000 Flash Storage Processors.